Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschewas a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1844
CityRocken, Germany
CountryGermany
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
If you know the why, you can live any how.
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.